[Sunhelp] Solaris question

[Chanaka Mendis]

James Lockwood wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Dale Ghent wrote:
>
> > cd /olddatalocation ; tar cfv - . | (cd /newdatalocation ; tar xfp -)
>
> I highly recommend modifying this to:
>
> cd /olddatalocation ; tar cfv - . | (cd /newdatalocation && tar xfp -)
>
> Note the "&&".  This will prevent all sorts of interesting things from
> happening if you misspell "newdatalocation".  Saved me more than once and
> IMHO well worth the extra character.
>
> -James
>
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If you want to move root file system to a new disk  U cannot use tar.
Otherwise that is the way.

/Gayantha